Are there any methods for applying alias to text using CSS that is supported across browsers?
The client I am working with is a design add agency and they have choosen Helvetica font for there web site. My understanding is that this is not a standard font supplied with Windows. Short of making images of all the text, is there a way to approximate the alias of text?
font alias css ?
You are looking for the font-family property. Documentation here:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/font/font-family.html
Basicly, you put the main font you want to use first, and then the alternatives in order of preference. E.G.
p { font-family: helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; }
Will show helvetica in browsers with access to that font, followed by verdana and arial in descending order, followed by the defined generic sans-serif font, whatever that happens to be, for all your <p></p> elements. The browser will read the list of fonts and apply the first one that is available.
font alias css ?
font alias css ?
Well yes, I had something similar , but the text looks hard and crisp. I was looking for a way to add alias to it like you would in photoshop.
.casestudy_text { font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Trebuchet MS; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.20em; color: white; letter-spacing: 1px; }
font alias css ?
Image Replacement. A popular one seems to be sifr.
http://www.shauninman.com/plete/2004/04/ifr-revisited-and-revised
font alias css ?
If you are talking about anti-aliasing, Macs do this, and Windows XP will do it automatically if "clear type" is enabled. Unfortunately it comes disabled by default.
My windows 2000 home PC has a "smooth screen fonts" setting which appears to enable anti-aliasing, but that may be a function of the graphics card software or hardware. Earlier versions of Windows I don't know about.
font alias css ?
I was looking for a way to add alias to it like you would in photoshop.
Follow thepineapplehead's link
font alias css ?
That link has to do with a flash replacement technque. I didn't see anything about text other than text inside flash.
It doesn't sound like there is away for css to do anti-aliasing.
font alias css ?
There isn't. CSS doesn't do that, it lets you specify the font to use.
font alias css ?
Just to clarify my previous post, there is nothing in CSS that specifies whether a font should have anti-aliasing applied. That's done (or not done) by the user agent (browser), or the O/S.
font alias css ?
Cleartype isn't anti-aliasing - at least not anti-aliasing to the same standard achieved by OS/X or image manipulation software. Its aimed primarily at LCD displays where it gives big improvements - read more. If you are using IE there is also a ClearType Settings Tuner
One technique to improve the font look is to use a dark grey. That can soften the contrast at the edges of the font to make it look less blocky, although still nowhere near as smooth as text anti-aliased in image manipulation software or OS/X.
font alias css ?
Cleartype isn't anti-aliasing - at least not anti-aliasing to the same standard achieved by OS/X or image manipulation software.
You may be right of course. I just sorta drew that conclusion from a note on page 83 of "Bulletproof Web Design" by Dan Cederholm although it doesn't actually say that outright.
font alias css ?
Microsofts own blurb says its a new whizzbang thing that goes beyond traditional anti-aliasing and font smoothing. However, that sounds like marketting speak for different and not as good
In the end I believe the evidence of my own eyes - an anti-aliased gif of text always looks better than the same thing displayed by the browser, at least on my old CRT monitor. Maybe ClearType does look better than traditionally anti-aliased text on a flat panel.
I have a feeling in Vista, Microsoft will contrive some new marketing speak to explain how the font anti-aliasing it will have really is newer and goes beyond cruddy old ClearType.
font alias css ?
Aliasing is the effect of jagged edges in smooth curves caused by displays using pixels.
Anything that "smooths" these effects is, by definition, "anti-aliasing".
This is normally done by filtering high-frequency components out of the digital signal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
for further information.
(Earlier incorrect stuff about "dither" edited out to avoid too much public embarrasment)
font alias css ?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
for further information.
font alias css ?
Ed Seedhouse wrote:Why are you enclosing your URLs in code tags? :?Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
for further information.
Seemed like the right thing to do at the time. A url *is* code, isn't it?
font alias css ?
In this forum, a fully qualified url, surrounded by a space on either end is clickable, eg., http://www.csscreator.com/ . Within the [code][/code] tags, it isn't. Optionally, you can use the [url=url]text[/url] tags like so:
[url=http://www.csscreator.com/]CSS Creator[/url], which will yield CSS Creator.
cheers,
gary
font alias css ?
I love AA, it makes the chainlink fences in HL2 look purdy. AF is also great, I can knock it up to 16x without affecting the FPS.
With a 6600GT, I can get 0xaa. With my 6800gs, I've set it to 2x, could go higher. With a 7800gtx you could go max.
But back on topic CSS doesn't antialias fonts. Flash will, which is why I suggested the sifr days ago.
font alias css ?
Optionally, you can use the [url=url]text[/url] tags like so:
CSS Creator, which will yield CSS Creator.
Didn't notice the little URL button and the tool-tip. I agree that's the right way to do it. Since I read left to right, apparantly my brain got to "Code" and stopped there.